Caught this article on the Morning Brew today, on making web service calls in Silverlight synchronous (which is fine as long as they're not running on the UI thread). Had a quick look through the code, including the CodeProject article which provided the base, and thought it seemed a little complicated. I've recently discovered that you can use the Reactive Framework extensions to wrap the event-based async pattern and make it synchronous; so far, I've just used it for unit testing, but I thou ... [Read more]